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Posted By: davidcycleback

If you know a Mel Ott ball will sell for, say, $500 in your auction and an authentic Mel Ott ball will sell for $30,000 in a Mastro Auction, there is no way you would sell in your auction a Mel Ott ball you believed authentic. If you are keeping it in your auction to sell for $500, that's because you don't believe it's authentic.

Same goes with authenticating companies. If a PSA/DNA or JSA LOA will bring you $10,000 more than an LOA from Company Z, you pick Company Z because you believe PSA/DNA and JSA would judge it fake. There is no other reason for turning down the $10,000. You can argue about customer service or house calls or examiner certifications or family values or that Jimmy Spence once said your dog was ugly, but no one's going to turn down $10,000.